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11B ALC – Tactics Exam Questions With
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What is the goal of ULO? - answer✔Establish condition to meet Joint Force Commanders end state.
What do Graphic Military Symbols represent? - answer✔Units, Equipment, Installations, Control
Measures, Tactical Tasks, & Other Elements
What do Graphic Military Symbols provide? - answer✔A common visual language for all users.
What is the purpose of graphic military symbols? - answer✔To allow commanders and staffs to display
certain elements of the operational picture.
What are graphic military symbols use on? - answer✔Situational Maps, Overlays, Annotated Aerial
Photographs.
What are graphic military symbols to express? - answer✔Operation Plan or Order, Concept, and Friendly
or Hostile Situation.
What are Military Symbols composed of? - answer✔A Frame, Color (fill), Icon, May include text or
graphic amplifiers.
What are the basic rules for building symbols? - answer✔Use existing symbols, hand-drawn or computer
generated, easily distinguishable, friendly and enemy symbols, distinguishable without color.
What is Step 1 of composing military symbols? - answer✔Choose the frame that matches the affiliation
of the unit, then choose the branch or functional symbol.
What is Step 2-5 of composing military symbols? - answer✔If required, choose the second-fifth branch
symbol modifier, further explaining the capability of the unit.
What is an echelon? - answer✔Team or crew (Note. This is the smallest echelon and should not be
confused with company team and brigade combat team in the next paragraph.)
O (Amplifier) - answer✔SQUAD
O O (Amplifier) - answer✔SECTION
O O O (Amplifier) - answer✔PLATOON
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I (Amplifier) - answer✔COMPANY, BATTERY OR TROOP
I I (Amplifier) - answer✔Battalion or Squadron
I I I (Amplifier) - answer✔Regiment or Group
X (Amplifier) - answer✔BRIGADE
X X (Amplifier) - answer✔DIVISION
X X X (Amplifier) - answer✔CORPS
What color is friendly? - answer✔Blue
What color is enemy? - answer✔red
[ ] 1 (up) A/1-1 (below) - answer✔Unit (up) Higher Formation (Below)
METT-TC - answer✔Mission, enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available,
and civil considerations
A tactician must understand and master the? - answer✔The science and art of tactics
What are the interrelated aspects the art of tactics? - answer✔The creative way to accomplish assigned
missions, decision making under adverse conditions, understanding the affects of combat on the Soldier.
What is the science of tactics? - answer✔Capabilities, techniques and procedures
ULO is executed through _____________, by means of ____________________ , guided by
_______________. - answer✔Decisive action, Army Core Competencies, mission command
Decisive action includes- - answer✔Offense, Defense, Stability, and defense support of civil authorities
(DSCA) Operations. Missions in any environment require army forces to be prepared to conduct any
combination of these operations.
What is combat power? - answer✔The total means of destructive, constructive, and information
capabilities that a military unit or formation can apply at a given time.
What are the elements of combat power? - answer✔Leadership, information, movement and
maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, mission command, protection
What is Army doctrine? - answer✔a Body of thought on how Army Forces Operate as an Integral part of
a Joint Force
What types of defensive operations are there? - answer✔Area, mobile and retrograde
What is the purpose of defense? - answer✔To defeat enemy, to economize forces, develop conditions
favorable for offensive or stability operations, gain time.
